Contest(s)

• Ava March is giving away your choice of a print or ebook copy of All in with the Duke (Gambling on Love #1). Closes midnight EST, November 16.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance), Smart Bitches (romance), AAR (romance), and Tor.com (UF/horror, genre-benders, PNR)
• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.
• “Are ‘safe’ books really what we want?“
• Kassa shares some thoughts on appropriate writer and reader/reviewer behavior.
• 10 NaNoWriMo-helpful links from Paperback Writer. More NaNoWriMo-helpful links from Paperback Writer.
• Writerly linkity from Becky Black.
• Book linkity from Smart Bitches.
• “None of this is new: An oral history of fanfiction“.
• Speaking of fanfic, learn all about mpreg.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Science has determined what the catchiest songs are. (Confession: I was too afraid of earworms to click through.)
• 8 unusual November festivals and 11 odd November holidays.
• What your cat’s tail is telling you.

Cookity

• 10 grilled cheese sandwich recipes.
• 10 pancake recipes.
• Apple cider waffles with salted caramel. (via The Kitchn)
• Skillet cornbread with bacon and cheddar.
• Spicy orange-ginger chicken.
• Quinoa with roasted beets and pear.
• White bean and chorizo soup. (via The Kitchn)
• Red lentil soup.
• Spaghetti squash with ricotta, sage, and pine nuts.
• Wintry mushroom, kale, and quinoa enchiladas.
• Pumpkin quesadillas with lime-jalapeno yogurt.
• Pumpkin butter.
• Pumpkin pie in a mug.

Gluten Free

• Banana muffins.
• Chocolate fudge cake.
• Pumpkin donut muffins.
• Phyllo dough and spanakopita.

Crafty

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Mixtape notebooks.
• Stream Shakespearian plays from the Globe Theater.
• “PhD student’s interpretive dance of her tornado research wins contest…“
• Black cat art.
• Various TV detectives visit Twin Peaks.
• If there’s an arcade game from the 1970s-1990s that you miss, you might find it among the 900 games emulated at the Internet Archive. (via Gizmodo).
• LEGO space city.
• Photo of the Milky Way over Devil’s Tower.
• Pumpkin carving NASA style.
• Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) put a camera in a ball of water.
• Speaking of the ISS, Chris Hadfield’s Space Oddity is back online.
• Mashup of cool scenes from movies about space.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Basketball court rugs.
• Wearable superhero sleeping bags.
• Self-leveling measuring spoons.

Wha…?

• Pumpkin spice latte… burger.
• Christmas tree shaped Doritos.
• Pee stain typeface.
• Bandages to make injuries look worse.

LOL

• 30 Halloweenish autocorrects.
• 31 best autocorrects of October.
• How cats see people.

Teh Cute

• Bunnies! Baby sea otter! Baby goat! Baby dik dik! Cat! Black cat! Animals with pumpkins!

Reading Update
Daemons Are Forever (Secret Histories #2) by Simon R Green. Pretty good continuation of this paranormal suspense series loosely (very loosely) based on James Bond: Eddie Drood is Bond, the Armourer is Q, Penny is Moneypenny, the Matriarch is M, and the books’ titles are hauntingly not-quite-familiar.
Libriomancer (Magic Ex Libris #1) by Jim C. Hines. Good contemporary fantasy about a wizard whose power is being able to make things from books real. Due to a magical mishap, he’s been relegated to working as a librarian in the UP (Michigan’s Upper Peninsula) and not using magic… until the shit hits the fan, of course.
Codex Born (Magic Ex Libris #2) by Jim C. Hines. Ok continuation of this contemporary fantasy series about a UP book mage and the dryad he loves. That’s a radical simplification of things, but I’m still annoyed about the ending – it wasn’t a cliffie, but things were left way too wide open. If that happens with the next book, I won’t continue reading the series.

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